Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero